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...stride of pride”?). Limiting your hook-ups to other freshmen makes this experience slightly less cringe-worthy, since the dash home stays within the comforting confines of the Yard. One technique to remain slightly more inconspicuous is to always travel with a long coat to hide everything—or nothing—underneath. Another, albeit riskier, tactic is to embrace your state of post-romp dishevelment and say with a chuckle to a suspecting acquaintance, “Oh, you know me, I just had a crazy, ridiculous one-night-stand orgy! See you in class...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How to Keep Cool as Things Get Hot | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...really detailed stuff. You're creating a table, and so you have to say how many glasses are on the table, and you have to build the glasses in your mind. In journalism the details are what jump out at you: the strange way somebody buttons their coat, or a weird way someone has of standing. In fiction those are by far the most difficult things to fabricate because it's hard to make those things seem real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chuck Klosterman | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

...phrase common in the car sales industry, used to describe taking a hunk of junk, brushing on a fresh coat of paint and selling it for full price. Now, in the wake of Barack Obama's use of the saying and the McCain/Palin attacks against him over it, "putting lipstick on a pig" has become the latest flashpoint in the presidential campaign circus. But politicians and average joes have tossed around the folksy phrase long before this recent bump on the campaign trail. A sampling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: 'Putting Lipstick on a Pig' | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...course, Phelps won't admit to it. But if you're as gifted as he is in the water, and you shrug off world records as easily as a coat, no mere clocks will keep you feeling challenged - you need something to motivate you. Setting eight new marks in a single meet might do it - Phelps has already broken five world records in a meet at last year's World championships. What's three more? Next up are the 200m butterfly, in which he owns eight of the top 10 performances ever, and the 4x200m freestyle relay, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Even Higher Bar for Phelps? | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

...five minutes of receiving it. If you order takeout from a fancy restaurant, you should tip 10%. At a fancy place, it has to be packaged correctly, which actually takes more time than it does to plate it and bring it out to the table. And tip $1 per coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of an Angry Waiter | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

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